This haunting picture made me think of Burgess Merideth in the Twilight Zone’s “Time Enough At Last.”
The Old Wolf has spoken.
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Playing in the World Game 
My husband watches TV basically all the time, and I do a lot of work (and play) on my laptop next to him. On one of his favorite channels, a tiny clip of the Burgess Meredith/Twilight Zone scene has been playing over and over again along with a woman, aghast, saying something like “To Serve Man—it’s a” ::cut off:: but I know what she was going to say! Either Rod Serling snitched it from C. S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair or the other way around. I leave the research as an exercise for the student.
Damon Knight’s story “To Serve Man,” on which the Twilight Zone episode was based, was written in 1950. The Silver Chair did not appear until 1953. I think that effectively clears up who did what first.